Category: France

A Tour Through Paris, Illustrated with Seventeen Colored Plates, Accompanied with Descriptive Letter-Press

Price: $1,650.00

Publisher: London, William Sams

Seller ID: 001884

Condition: Very Good

N.d., 1834. Folio-sized, 14 by 10 inches, or 36 by 25 cm. 55 pp. 17 hand-colored plates. The subject matter of the plates is full of delight and surprise, and the composition and coloring is singularly tasteful and sublime. Highlights are surely the dancers on stilts, the blind man on the bridge, the juggler or the charcoal porters. But this is not an early, Parisian version of "London Poor" or the street life of Paris, for we encounter people from all walks of life, and we are taken to places more private, such as the interior of a swimming school! Perhaps the most exception as...
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Costume Francais de 1200 a 1715

Price: $1,000.00

Publisher: London, C. Hullmandel

Seller ID: 001974

Condition: Fine

N.d. Circa 1820s. 12mo, 5.5 by 4.5 inches, or 14 by 11.5 cm. 100 hand-colored lithograph costume plates, all immaculate. Leaves are printed only on one side, and the plates resemble stylish costume cards. This book is usually found with only black and white plates. Other than minor toning along the edges, the thick paper looks virtually new. All is bound in a lush modern reddish-orange morocco, with gilt and incised decoration on both the boards and spine. The gilt figures incorporate the shape of the fleur-de-lys and come off both tastefully simple and elegant. The leather has a par...
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Lumiere et Beaute. Revue Mensuelle Editee Specialement Pour Les Laboratoires Laurencon Janvier 1931 a Juin 1933 (30 issues from the 1st to 3rd year of this publication)

Price: $65.00

Seller ID: 002058

Binding: QuarteCalfr

Condition: Very Good

Square, measuring 7 by 7 inches. Each issue runs six pages, including the covers, and is virtually entirely photographs of travel through France or of interesting ads as well (not necessarily related to travel). Some light spotting appearing occasionally. Otherwise clean, with minor wear of binding along edges.
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Versailles et Trianon

Price: $500.00

Publisher: Paris, Imprimerie Lemercier et Cie. Hautecoeur freres, Martinet

Seller ID: 002321

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Oblong, 26 by 17 cm, 10 by 6.75 inches. With sixteen hand-colored views of the main palace, its grounds and fountains, and the Trianons. With no title other than that which is on the binding, this is a collection of views that were either assembled by the tourist and then bound, as was done then, or more likely, bound with some randomness by the souvenir shop. This can be inferred by the views bearing numbers but not having any particular order in this album. In any event, the pictures are delightful. Other than a very occasional fox mark in the margins, the plates are clean. The red cl...
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Jeanne D'Arc Episode de L'Histoire de France

By: Albert Liger. Preface by Georges D'Esparbes. Illustrations by Andhre des Gachons

Price: $225.00

Publisher: Orleans, H. Herluison : 1897 or 1898

Seller ID: 002172

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Very Good

8vo. 162, [2] pp. With eight color plates, in addition to black and white illustrations at the chapter heads. The front cover gives the date as 1898 but the title says 1897. An account of the French heroine and saint. Wraps have soiling. Tissue guards with foxing; little foxing elsewhere. Small crease in upper corner. Pages cut sometimes crudely.
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Vues de Paris. Bois en Couleur

By: Bonfils, Robert

Price: $1,750.00

Publisher: Paris, Louis Rouart and J. Watelin : 1920

Seller ID: 007276

Binding: Portfolio

Condition: Near Fine

No. 42 of 300 copies on Alfa, mounted onto Arches paper, out of a total limitation of 323. The Arches backing is a folded sheet, with the top piece having a window cut-out, creating the look of matting around the print. Folio. 46 by 32 cm. Two loose text sheets (table of plates, and the Justification du Tirage, followed by 16 color linocut plates. The artwork has the stylization associated with Art Deco. The presence of people, horses, cars, etc. liven up the depiction of monuments and landmark buildings. Scarce -- only three institutional copies listed on OCLC First Search, and only o...
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Le Moyen Age

By: Callendier, M.

Price: $1,850.00

Seller ID: 003163

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fine

N.d., circa late 1800s. Folio-sized. 38 by 31 cm. Unpaginated, [36] pp., including title. With stunning borders, mostly in the Medieval style, often illuminated, plus two watercolors of castles, and mounted illuminated leaf of vellum for title, and a mounted vellum leaf painting of a troubadour. This manuscript or homemade book was quite possibly the creation of a French student, who in the text described, always in a calligraphic quality cursive, chivalry, Medieval commerce, literature, education, heraldry, armaments, architecture, guilds, music and policing, the Inquisition, and hunting...
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Journal of Sentimental Travels in the Southern Provinces of France, Shortly Before the Revolution

By: Combe, William. Illustrated by Thomas Rowlandson

Price: $1,000.00

Publisher: London, Rudolph Ackermann : 1821

Seller ID: 006539

Binding: Full Morocco

Condition: Fine

8vo. (23 by 14.5 cm.) [2], ii, 291, [1] pp., With 18 handcolored aquatint plates by Rowlandson. Text by Combe (uncredited) has a delightful levity without the doggeril that afflicts his once very popular light verse. Abbey Travel 89. Tooley 415. Full red morocco binding by Brentano's. Condition: joints and edges of morocco binding rubbed, and somewhat heavily at a few spots on front joint. A few scratches to surface of boards.
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Panorama de la Ville de Paris, et Guide de l'Etranger a Paris; Presentant L'origine, l'histoire et l'accroissement de cette ville, la description de ses monumens, et ses etablissemens publics; Extrait litteralement de l'histoire physique, civile et morale de Paris

By: Dulaure, J. A.

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Paris, Peytieux. P. Corneille. : 1824

Seller ID: 002864

Binding: Half Leather, Marbled Boards

Condition: Very Good Minus

Scarce, early travel guide for Paris, with a folding hand-colored map of the city. 12mo. 14 by 9 cm, 5.5 by 3.5 inches. xxiv, fold-out table, 468 pp. With 12 steel engravings. The map, when opened, measures 47 by 32 cm and color keys major buildings by type: military structures, religious structures, theaters, etc. It is a very handsome map depicting Restoration Paris. Heavy rubbing and wear to calf spine. Tear to map perpendicular to where hinged to binding. Most leaves are clean.
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Image for A Visit to the Monastery of La Trappe in 1817, with Notes, Taken During a Tour Through Le Perche, Normandy, Bretagne, Poitou, Anjou, Le Bocage, Touraine, Orleanois, and the Environs of Paris Illustrated with Numerous Coloured Engravings, From Drawings Made on the Spot

A Visit to the Monastery of La Trappe in 1817, with Notes, Taken During a Tour Through Le Perche, Normandy, Bretagne, Poitou, Anjou, Le Bocage, Touraine, Orleanois, and the Environs of Paris Illustrated with Numerous Coloured Engravings, From Drawings Made on the Spot

By: Fellowes, W. D., Esq.

Price: $450.00

Publisher: London, Thomas McLean : 1818

Seller ID: 001943

Condition: Very Good

4to (9.5 by 6 inches, 24 by 16 cm), with 15 plates, of which 12 are hand-colored aquatints. xii + 188 pp. A classic of travelogue literature, noteworthy for the author's modest, leisurely and informative conversational style that perfectly complements the luminous, soft-hued aquatints. Here is an appreciation of the surroundings, and one can in an armchair experience some sense of travel from another era. Abbey Travel 86, Tooley 212. Clean and tight within. Rubbing to joints, and lower front corner bumped. Floral tooling within spine compartments is simple yet most attractive.
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Collection des Nouveaux Costumes des Autorités Constituées, Civils et Militaires. Dostumes des Législateurs et des Autres Fonctionaires Publics.

By: Garnerey, Jean François, author of text and illustrator. Engraved by Pierre-Michel Alix.

Price: $1,350.00

Publisher: Paris, : 1796

Seller ID: 005061

Binding: Full Morocco

Condition: Near Fine

8vo. 19 by 12.5 cm. 8 pp, followed by 26 hand-colored aquatint plates depicting the dress of legislators, military officers, bureaucrats and other public officials during the French Revolution and Directoire period. Later full red morocco binding, with ornate gilt turn-ins, by Riviere. Light foxing, never disconcerting.
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L'Histoire du Costume Feminin Francais de l'an 1037 a l'an 1870

By: Giafferri, Paul Louis

Price: $300.00

Publisher: Paris, Editions Nilsson : 1922

Seller ID: 001605

Binding: Wraps housed in a portfolio

Condition: Very Good

10 Fascicules housed in a portfolio folder. With 120 color pochoir plates, each measuring 39 by 28 cm, or 14.4 by 11 inches. The fascicules are devoted to different historic eras, and within, the plates are devoted to different aspects of clothing. All the fascicules have bright, lively illustrations on their covers which are among the most appealing illustrations in the series, followed by eight pages of text and then 12 plates, and the plates themselves have somewhat detailed captions describing the items depicted, thus making this an excellent visual reference as well as a hedonistic feas...
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L'Assiette au Beurre Municipale. No. 55 -- 19 Avril 1902

By: Grandjouan, author and illustrator

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Paris, Schwarz : 1902

Seller ID: 001872

Condition: Very Good

pp. 886-907, plus wrap covers. Each page is to a large vivid cartoon, a few of which are two-paged, many of which are tinted. Also comes with a two-page advertising supplement. Closed tear along spine of wraps, as is typical. Some soiling on front and back. Mostly clean otherwise.
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Mon Village Ceux Qui N'Oublient Pas

By: Hansi, L'Oncle (Johann Jacob Waltz, or Jean-Jacque Waltz)

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Paris, H. Floury : 1920

Seller ID: 002014

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Oblong, measuring 32 by 24 cm, 12.5 by 9.5 inches. Nostalgic look at Alsatian village of yore, and as much of Hansi's writings, about the French-ness of the village and demonizing the German occupiers, who were only recently driven out at the time this copy was issued. The illustrations exude the naive charm of Hansi's best work, whose legacy was to create an enduring visual image of Alsatian life. The decorated cloth boards have soiling and the fabric is worn by the corners and the spine extremities. Inside the pages have age toning but otherwise are clean.
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Album of 39 Engraved Plates

By: Le Pautre, Antoine

Price: $800.00

Seller ID: 001684

Binding: Full Leather

Condition: Very Good

Circa mid-1700s. Small 4to. With 39 engravings of vases, grand interiors and other architectural elements. A real schmorgesborg of Le Pautre's output. Le Pautre (1621–1679) was a leading architect during the reign of Louis XIV. He is now most appreciated, though, for his spectacular engravings. These engravings were published by Pierre Mariette, Nicolas Langlois and others.
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La France Touristique de Paris a la Champagne Revue Mensuelle

By: Popinot, Marcel, director. Jean Vertex, editor.

Price: $275.00

Publisher: Paris, Les Editions France & Tourisme : 1934

Seller ID: 004229

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Very Good

4to. 31 by 24. Unpaginated, 80 pp. Treats vineyards and champagne-making more than anything else, but touches on, briefly, sports, local history, First World War, other cultural elements of area. Also advertisements, again, most for champagne and wine. Distinguished contributors include Albert Lourdes. Many sepia-toned photographs, some mounted. Scarce, with no copies located on OCLC FirstServe. This was apparently a part of a monthly series, but it stands very much alone. Soiling of chammy-textured wraps. Clean within.
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Category: France